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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.
The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.
The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.
The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.